Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Selwyn College, Cambridge
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== George Augustus Selwyn === [[File:Selwyn, George Augustus (1809-1878), by Mason & Co..jpg|left|thumb|upright|[[George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield)|George Augustus Selwyn]] (1809β1878)]] The college was founded following the death of Bishop [[George Selwyn (bishop of Lichfield)|George Augustus Selwyn]], who had played an important role in the establishment of New Zealand as its first bishop. Selwyn was a scholar of [[St John's College, Cambridge]], and a member of the Cambridge crew which competed in the inaugural [[The Boat Race|Boat Race]] in [[The Boat Race 1829|1829]]. He came out second in the Classical Tripos in 1831, graduating Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1831, Master of Arts (MA Cantab) 1834, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) per lit. reg. 1842, and was a fellow of St John's College from 1833 to 1840.<ref name="Short History">{{cite web|url=http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Selwyn-1882-1973.pdf|title=SELWYN COLLEGE 1882β1973: A Short History|website=Sel.cam.ac.uk|access-date=2017-08-26|archive-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922184136/http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Selwyn-1882-1973.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> After graduating, Selwyn first taught at [[Eton College]]. In 1833, he was ordained deacon, and, in 1834, a priest. Selwyn displayed leadership talent and, in 1841, after an episcopal council held at Lambeth had recommended the appointment of a bishop for New Zealand, Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London, offered the post to Selwyn. He returned to England in 1867, and accepted the post of [[Bishop of Lichfield]], which he held until his death on 11 April 1878, aged 69.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Selwyn College, Cambridge
(section)
Add topic